However, if one of my employees were to go to the newspapers or TV and complain about how I do business before discussing it with me
i guess you missed the part where she went to supervisors multiple times about lack of cert. on the scanners and lack of training manuals and was told to go pound sand. also, she only went to media after she was fired...as far as i am concerned for a federal employee to write a congressional rep. is basically escalating to a supervisor's boss.
They are not going to do a full search unless you refuse all electronic means
not true. i was flying domestic and refused to go through a millimeter wave scanner. they were scanning every person that was going into that concourse. they called on a radio for a manual screen and walked me through a metal detector that i did not set off (nothing was in my pockets at the time). the screener then fetched my belonging from a bin and placed them on a table near me. he then recited a huge explanation of the search and what he would touch and with what part of his hand, etc. i then was given the most invasive and thorough "pat down" that i have ever gotten. examined the cuffs and waistband of my pants very closely, etc. the screener then swabbed his gloves and checked them for explosive residue.
at this airport they were scanning everyone and patting down anyone who refused, the fight back the other airport was only using a metal detector and very infrequently scanning randomly with a backscatter x-ray machine.
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